Hose holder



May 2, 1933. JOHNSON 1,906,380

HOSE HOLDER Filed July 29, 1932 39M flTTWENEY Patented May 2, 1933 iUNITED STATES PATENT QFFICEA Application filed July 29, 1932; Serial No.626,188.

My invention relates to a hose and nozzle extending in the formdescribed from the holding device for lawn and garden watering upperterminus of the goose neck downwardpurposes. ly to the diverging arms 7C'thence'converg- The main object is to provide a simple, ingtoward theplate 6 and its rear ends rehighly efficient and inexpensive hose holdertained in the side parts of the plate. The adapted to be readily movedfrom place to goose neck is central ofthe front part of the place, thedevice being of exceptionally light device and in alinement with theapex16A but sturdy construction involving mainly a or rear end of plate6. I single piece of heavy wire and means for se- Approximately atthecenter of plate 6 and curely but removably retaining agarden hose onits top is fixed an upwardly opemng and its nozzle in such position thata lawn spring metal jaw member 8 inwhich'may be is efiiciently sprinkledwith a minimum of removably and frictionally retained a lawn fioriahose9 extending forwardly therefrom, cen- Further objects and advantagesare heretrally of the frame, and curved upwardly as inafter fully setforth reference being had to at 9C with'itsnozzle retainingend arrangedthe accompanying drawing, in which,- vertically between arms 7E andbearing Fig. l is a top view of my improved hose against the inner partof 7F, with the nozzle holder. l 10 above. said part 7F in verticalposition. Fig. 2' is aside elevation of Fig. 1 including 11 is a hoselocking bar with an eye part 26 a lawn hose and its nozzle in lawnspraying 11E pivotally engaging one arm of the goose position in theholder, and Fig. 3 is a front neck at its forwardly bent partintermediate view of Fig. 2. the upper and lower ends of the goose neck.Fig. 4 is a perspective View of the device This arm is swung aroundrearward of the tilted by a hand grasping the hose near the hose to thedotted line position shown in Fig. device for moving it. 1 to retain theforward upright part of the Fig. 5 is an enlarged transverse sectionalhose in said upright position. The free end detail view. as on line 55in Fig. 1. of the bar 11 may be removably retained in a Referring to thedrawing by reference 1111- fixed upwardly notched catch 12 on the armmerals 6 designates aflat sheet metal plate of of the goose neckopposite to the arm on trinagular form the apex of which is rearwhichthe bar is pivoted (see Figs. 2 and 3). ward and the two opposite sidesor edges With the nozzle end of a garden hose re-. thereof beaded toinclose the rear end parts tained in the device as above described and7A of a wire frame said parts 7A projecting. best illustrated in Fig. 2,with the nozzle po- V forward. from the plate 6 in diverging sitionedopening upwardly, the operator straight lines, in a common plane withthe merely adjusts the said nozzle as desired for plate, to a bend 7Bthence in forward anguspraying and the water is turned on. No lar planetoward each other as two arms 7C special type of nozzle or sprayer isrequired also in common plane with arms 7A and.- as an ordinaryadjustable type will suffice.

n plate 6. When an area of lawn has been sufiiciently The forwardextremities of arms 70 are in. sprinkled or sprayed an operator simplytransversely spaced relation and both bent grasps the hose 9 with a hand13 (Fig. 4) upward in tapered relation to form a goose rearward of thedevice, raises said part of neck the lower half 7D of which is inupright the hose and causing the holder to be tilted but rearwardlyinclined plane and the upper forward for dragging the, entire devicerear- I half 7E is also upright but in a forwardly ward to a newlocation. Or the operator inclined plane and its upper extremity commaylift the entire device of]? the ground and prising the rearwardlyopening half-loop 7F freely move it to any location desired while wherethe wire of the two arms is formed inthe spray is in operation. tegral.In other words the wire frame is a Removal of the hose from the deviceis exsingle integral piece of preferably heavy wire tremely simple, theoperator merely unlatching member 11 leaving the nozzle end of the hosefree to be removed from the goose-neck and the rearward or horizontalpart of the hose is readily removed from the holding member 8 on plate6.

It is obvious that in moving the device from place to place as in Fig. 4it is skidded along on the ground, contact being made only at the twoparts of the frame at the base of the goose neck where it connects witharms 713.

I claim:

A hose holder of the class described comprising an elongated fiat basetapered rearwardly and forwardly, an upright member formed integrallythereof in the forward end and consisting of a single integral wire bentforward anddownward from a half-loop at its upper extremity in two armsextending further down ina forward inclined plane to form a goose-neckarranged to frictionally retain the nozzle end of a hose in verticalposition between the arms ofsaid neck part, and locking means on saidneck at its curvature to further retain said hose end upright, saidlocking means comprising a bar pivotally secured to one arm of the gooseneck intermediate its ends (and adapted to span the goose neckhorizontally and means for removably retaining the said bar adjacent tothe other arm of the goose neck, to engage the rearward side of a hoseretained vertically inthe upper part of said goose neck.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

LOUIS JOHNSON.

